Who is the new president of Israel?
No:1. Israel’s Parliament on 2 June 2021 elected
former centre-left politician Isaac Herzog as the country’s President, a role
that is largely ceremonial but also meant to promote unity among ethnic and
religious groups.
No:2. Herzog beat rival candidate Miriam Peretz, an
educator and mother of two Israeli infantry officers killed in battle, by a
vote of 87 lawmakers to 26.
No:3. He will assume the presidency in July 2021,
replacing Reuven Rivlin, who is ending his seven-year term.
No:4. First elected to Parliament in 2003, Herzog, 60,
went on to lead the Labour Party and hold several portfolios in coalition
governments.
No:5. His most recent public post was as head of the
Jewish Agency for Israel, which encourages immigration.
No:6. Defeated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
a 2015 national ballot, Herzog was picked as President as his former nemesis
faced possible toppling by a crossparty alliance of challengers.
No:7. Herzog, a lawyer, is the son of the late Israeli
President Chaim Herzog, who also served as his country’s ambassador to the
United Nations.
No:8. He is popularly known by his childhood nickname
‘Bougie’, a combination of the Hebrew word for doll ‘buba’ and a word for toy
used by French children, ‘joujou’.
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